Ian Ramjohn

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Wikipedia expert at @WikiEducation. 
Plant ecology Ph.D. 🇹🇹Trinbagonian in exile

Happy Boxing Day, an important cat holiday.

On the first Boxing Day, Basht created the first box, and offered it to all the living creatures. Only one was smart enough to understand the gift, and promptly sat in it. As a reward for being so clever, Basht made her the ancestor of all the felids. Now every time a cat sees a box, they sit in in an act of remembrance and worship of ancestor whose name all cats know, but they don’t share with lesser beings.

Poppy the Christmas Kitty
Why does the NYT Spelling Bee hate Wikipedia? This is definitely anti-Wikipedian bias. "Gnoming" is a word - what else do you call what WikiGnomes do?
In the city, in the middle of the day!
This is anti-West Indian discrimination!
Today’s truth is stranger than fiction story (in a good sense, for once). I never expected to see The Onion buy InfoWars.
Matt f’ing Gaetz?

Looks like NYT has called the Michigan senate seat for Elissa Slotkin.

It’s a huge relief. I’d say it’s puzzling, given her solid support for Israel (far more than anything Kamala ever endorsed) but maybe that shows the value of a dedicated disinformation campaign.

Or maybe it’s simply racism.

Looks like Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally has drawn traffic to a certain Wikipedia article. I wonder what the traffic stats will look like after today’s traffic is included. (Days here are reported in UTC, so much of the rally happened “today”